The author’s idea was an incredible one. He really had the opportunity to wow me and other tech-sci-fi fans but he fell drastically short. If the author has done research on the military, the CIA, middle eastern Cultures, and so many other aspects of the story, the book could have been much better. The overuse of the thesaurus (and not checking the definitions of the different synonyms with a dictionary) really had a negative impact as well. Additionally, I gave the performance 3 stars as well because the narrator seemed to suffer the same issues as the author but with pronunciation. All in all the concept really grabbed my attention but the book let me down, way down. I listened until the end but alas, I shall not suffer through any more of this series.